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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Slapton lies in the extreme south of Devon forming a stretch of the county's English Channel coastline, here, however, it faces eastward. Slapton is located about 7 miles southwest of the port of Dartmouth and sits just under a mile west of the A379 road which joins Dartmouth with Kingsbridge. Slapton is a mid-sized and compact village, its formation is slightly unusual in being built around a circle of lanes which encloses the extensive churchyard as well as numerous properties. Slapton village sits on a bench-like shoulder of a hill inland of its major assets, the shore at Slapton Sands and its Ley enclosed by a shingle ridge, on which runs the A379, an extensive water-body and nature reserve. This coastline has no natural harbour so Slapton would have primarily been a pastoral farming community like much of inland Devon. Today Slapton makes its living from tourism, the beach is a draw as is the nature reserve, Slapton holds a Field Study Centre training the naturalists in classrooms as well as the natural world. The shingle ridge has a certain notoriety as the venue of one of the major pre-D-Day disasters when a rehearsal landing was attacked and many killed. For hikers the shingle ridge is but but one trial on the country's South West Way National Trail around the South-west peninsula. Water draining from the parish arrives into the Ley from where it percolates through the shingle to the English Channel. Slapton is sited at between 15 and 45 metres above the sea but land rises inland to local heights reaching 162 metres to the northwest. Slapton parish covers around 3,000 acres which would have supported a population of just over 700 parishioners. In Domesday times this quiet coastal village was listed amongst the largest 20% of settlements in the land by population, held by the Bishop of Exeter its impressive holding of 23 ploughs backed by meadows, pastures & woodland made it a wealthy manor indeed. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
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29th April 1755 - 8th July 1812 |
Devon Heritage Centre - Reference - 3040A/PR/1/7 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 3 entries per page |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 23rd February 1813 - 4th May 1837 | Devon Heritage Centre - Reference - 3040A/PR/1/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Blackawton
St Michael
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Blackawton
St Michael
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Blackawton
St Michael
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East
Allington St Andrew
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East
Allington St Andrew
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Stokenham
St Michael
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